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King Ratbod’s Dilemma

King Ratbod’s Dilemma

Apostasy and Restoration in the Sixteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

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(p.265)
11 King Ratbod’s Dilemma

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Standing Apart

Author(s):

Jonathan Green

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Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199348138.003.0011

This chapter argues that apostasy is a question of belief, not a historical process. It proposes that the history of belief in an apostasy is a textual phenomenon that can be studied, particularly during the Protestant Reformations. Demonstrating this methodology, the chapter examines LDS affinities both with sixteenth-century Protestants’ anxieties about how to make sense of the past with a teleological model of history and with their uneasiness about the source of ecclesial authority. In the process, it discovers that Latter-day Saints’ textual practices fit into the longer history of devotional reading and connect most closely not with the famous reformers such as Luther and Zwingli but, rather, those such as Caspar Schwenckfeld.

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PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2020. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. date: 07 June 2020